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> Companies have positions that they currently have filled with an H-1B worker. When a company wants to keep an H-1B employee, they file something called a PERM or permanent employment certification. This is something that issues a green card to an H-1B employee to allow them to maintain their position indefinitely.
>Now, part of the criteria for being granted this certificate is for the employer to demonstrate that there is no qualified American applicant who can fill this position. The way that this is done is usually by listing the job as an opening that people can apply for.
>However, because the goal is to prevent Americans from buying, it works the exact same way as listing the H-1B jobs. Typically, via confusing ad on a local very low circulation, ideally foreign language newspaper. Once the inevitable zero-qualified applicants from American citizens rolls in, they're free to proceed.
>What jobs do now does, however, is scrape the those confusing job offer filings for where these listings are publicly disclosed and collate them into the format of a regular, clear to read job site.
>If any qualified American citizen applies to one of these jobs, it absolutely catastrophically FUCKS up the PERM application. Now, there's actually an opening because the right to overstay the visa is contingent upon there not being any Americans capable of filling the position. And because the PERM applications are typically only filed at the end of the visa period, this generally results in the application's denial and the position opening for real.
>>>Now, here's the kicker. If once this position is open, you aren't hired despite being a qualified applicant, and they issue another H-1B visa despite having a qualified American applicant on file, this opens these companies up to a slam dunk lawsuit and them getting into an extraordinary amount of trouble.